Red Book, Middle Way

How Jung Parallels the Buddha's Method for Human Integration

by Robert M. Ellis

Book cover: Red Book, Middle Way

Extent: 224 pages

Publisher: Equinox Publishing

Subjects: Buddhist Studies, Philosophy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2020)

ISBN: 9781800500099

Price: $32.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(October 2020)

ISBN: 9781800500082

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $100.00

In stock

Jung’s Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung’s interpretation of them. Red Book, Middle Way offers a new interpretation of Jung’s Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha’s teachings and elsewhere. Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) as well as offering lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions – the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ, and follows Jung’s process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.

  • By (author) Robert M. Ellis

"Summaries of Jung's visions and representative quotes give a decent sense of the philosopher's writing, and citations to the three most common versions of Red Book are helpful. . . . This articulate theoretical work is best suited for academics and other specialists looking for fresh ways to approach Jung." --Publishers Weekly